Dictatorship


Animal Farm
Matched (Matched, #1)
1984
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
The Orphan Master's Son
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
In the Time of the Butterflies
The Handmaid's Tale
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Feast of the Goat
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
Christopher Hitchens
Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe more. Francis Collins says maybe 100,000. Richard Dawkins thinks maybe a quarter-of-a-million. I'll take 100,000. In order to be a Christian, you have to believe that for 98,000 years, our species suffered and died, most of its children dying in childbirth, most other people having a life expectancy of about 25 years, dying of their teeth. Famine, st ...more
Christopher Hitchens

Aldous Huxley
There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the fin ...more
Aldous Huxley

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